Disillusioned - By An Ex-enthusiast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGAH IIJKLM NNOPPO QQRSSR TTUAAU UUVWWX YYZWWZ A2A2B2C2C2B2| Oh that my soul its gods could see | A |
| As years ago they seemed to me | A |
| When first I painted them | B |
| Invested with the circumstance | C |
| Of old conventional romance | C |
| Exploded theorem | D |
| - | |
| The bard who could all men above | E |
| Inflame my soul with songs of love | E |
| And with his verse inspire | F |
| The craven soul who feared to die | G |
| With all the glow of chivalry | A |
| And old heroic fire | H |
| - | |
| I found him in a beerhouse tap | I |
| Awaking from a gin born nap | I |
| With pipe and sloven dress | J |
| Amusing chums who fooled his bent | K |
| With muddy maudlin sentiment | L |
| And tipsy foolishness | M |
| - | |
| The novelist whose painting pen | N |
| To legions of fictitious men | N |
| A real existence lends | O |
| Brain people whom we rarely fail | P |
| Whene'er we hear their names to hail | P |
| As old and welcome friends | O |
| - | |
| I found in clumsy snuffy suit | Q |
| In seedy glove and blucher boot | Q |
| Uncomfortably big | R |
| Particularly commonplace | S |
| With vulgar coarse stockbroking face | S |
| And spectacles and wig | R |
| - | |
| My favourite actor who at will | T |
| With mimic woe my eyes could fill | T |
| With unaccustomed brine | U |
| A being who appeared to me | A |
| Before I knew him well to be | A |
| A song incarnadine | U |
| - | |
| I found a coarse unpleasant man | U |
| With speckled chin unhealthy wan | U |
| Of self importance full | V |
| Existing in an atmosphere | W |
| That reeked of gin and pipes and beer | W |
| Conceited fractious dull | X |
| - | |
| The warrior whose ennobled name | Y |
| Is woven with his country's fame | Y |
| Triumphant over all | Z |
| I found weak palsied bloated blear | W |
| His province seemed to be to leer | W |
| At bonnets in Pall Mall | Z |
| - | |
| Would that ye always shone who write | A2 |
| Bathed in your own innate limelight | A2 |
| And ye who battles wage | B2 |
| Or that in darkness I had died | C2 |
| Before my soul had ever sighed | C2 |
| To see you off the stage | B2 |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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